Police arrests boy for gang-rape of Raipur siblings, seeks transfer

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
RAIPUR: One of the 10 men accused of the gang-rape of two sisters in Raipur last week is the son of a police officer posted at the police
station probing the case
In fact, it was the father, ASI Deepak Sahu, who arrested his son, Krishna, and immediately applied for a transfer.Raipur senior SP Prashant
Agrawal granted his plea and transferred ASI Sahu to another police station so that the probe is not hampered
Protests have erupted in Raipur and elsewhere, demanding the death sentence to the rapists
One of those gang-raped is a minor.The sisters were returning home with a cousin after celebrating Raksha Bandhan on the night of August 31
when they were waylaid by 10 youths in Mandir Hasaud region
They thrashed the cousin, drove him off and forced the girls to sit on their bikes
The girls were taken to a deserted area and gang-raped.Led by the Raipur SSP, multiple teams tracked down the suspects and arrested all of
them by the next morning
Sahu was handed the investigation
He was shocked when the probe led to his son, but he arrested him and promptly withdrew from the investigation.